THE PROCESS OF

COMMUNITY
IMMERSION
1. Pre-Immersion
2. Entering the Community
3. Community Integration
4. Community Needs Assessment
5. Program or Project Implementation
6. Termination of the Project
THE PROCESS OF COMMUNITY
IMMERSION
PHASE 1 AREA SELECTION :FACTORS TO BE
CONSIDERED

▪ Groups or communities to be chosen belong to the

deprived, depressed and underprivileged
▪ Willingness of local groups and community
leaders to work with you on community projects
▪ Anticipated activities and demands fall within
your available resources and ability to meet them

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AREA SELECTION :FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED

▪ Presence of development agencies and other

support institutions providing assistance to the
areas
▪ Stable peace and order situation
▪ Accessibility. Successful community immersion
also relies on how quickly and how often you can
visit the community
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PHASE 2 ENTERING THE COMMUNITY

▪ Community Mapping
-identify the geographic coverage of the project
- Point out the resources that may be used by the
trainees in the community and relationship of people
with these resources

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WAYS OF ENTERING THE COMMUNITY

▪ Ostentatious Entry
▪ Banking on the People’s Weakness
▪ Academic Style of Entry
▪ People-Centered Approach

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PHASE 3 COMMUNITY INTEGRATION

▪ A continuous process wherein the trainees come

into direct contact and become involved with the
community people

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WAYS OF COMMUNITY INTEGRATION

▪ Border Style- trainees choose to stay and live-in

the immersion area for a certain period of time
▪ Elitist Style-trainees tend to stay close to key
informants and political players during their stay
in the community
▪ People-Centered Method

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PHASE 4 COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT

▪ A concrete base for the formulation of programs

▪ Reflects the sentiments, needs, aspirations and
recommendations of the community people
▪ Reflects trainees feeling of oneness

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COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT DEFINED

▪ The process wherein problems, issues and

concerns of the community are identified through
the use of several tools for assessment
▪ Participation of the community

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IMPORTANCE OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT

1. Gather information about citizen’s attitudes and

options in order of importance
2. Determine how citizens rank issues, problems
and opportunities in order of importance or
urgency
3. Give citizens a voice in determining policies,
goals and priorities
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IMPORTANCE OF NEEDS ASSESSMENT

4. Evaluate current programs and policies

5. Provide speculations about what people are
thinking
6. Provide speculations about what people really
want

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INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN ASSESSING
COMMUNITY NEEDS

▪ Historical Development- data on how the

community became what it is today and provides
insights into the kind of resources to collect and
weed
▪ Geographical & Transportation Information-
community patterns and population contributions

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INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN ASSESSING
COMMUNITY NEEDS
▪ Political and Legal Functions- strategies or community-
based selection (strategies that community uses for selecting
players in the political sphere)
▪ Demographic Data- age characteristics, size, race and
transience of population
▪ Economic Data- economic base, social, cultural,
educational, recreational organizations (values & social
patterns)
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COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT APPROACH

▪ Key Informant Approach- using key persons in

collecting data through questionnaires or
interviews; easiest and least expensive ways
▪ Public Forum Approach- gathers information from
the community residents through group discussion
in a series of forum

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COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT APPROACH

▪ Nominal Group Approach- gather maximized

group participation through individuals creative
thinking in an open, face to face and non
threatening environment from within the group
▪ Delphi Technique Approach-structured using a
series of questionnaires thus feedbacks are
summarized from the responses
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COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT APPROACH

▪ Survey Approach- collection or gathering of data

and information through questionnaire or
interviews from a community (sampling
procedure)

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STEPS IN COLLECTING INFORMATION

1. Awareness on the importance and purpose of the information to be collected

2. Determine when you want to use the data
3. Determine exactly what you want to know
4. Determine who will find the information
5. Identify possible sources of information
6. Set limits to how much information you want to collect
7. Collect the data
8. Identify gaps in your knowledge
9. Repeat the process to fill those gaps or collect your own data
10. Compare the data of your community with another community
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CRITERIA IN IDENTIFYING COMMUNITY
PROBLEMS

1. The problem occurs

2. The duration of the problem
3. The scope or range
4. The severity of the problem
5. The equity
6. The perception
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REASONS WHY COMMUNITY PROBLEMS HAVE TO
BE ANALYZED

▪ To better identify the problem or issue

▪ To understand the main reason of a problem
▪ To determine the barriers and resources associated
with addressing the problem
▪ To develop the best remedy for addressing the
problem
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PHASE 5 PROGRAM/PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

▪ Making the final arrangement with target clients/

community partners, officials involved in the activities, right
schedule of events, day to day activities and needs of
clients, manpower, monitoring and evaluation plan,
culminating activities
▪ Needs of the client will be the dominant consideration
throughout the conduct of the project

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PHASE 6 TERMINATION OF PROJECTS

▪ Prepare for any eventualities should implementers

will terminate the project
▪ Inform about the status of the project

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SOCIAL
MOBILIZATION

- Is an approach wherein the community

participatiuon is very essential
- It uses deliberate participating processes
to involve local institutions, local leaders,
community groups and members of the
community to organize through concerted
efforts toward a common purpose

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SOCIAL
MOBILIZATION

- A process of capability building of a

deprived community to enable its people
to plan, manage and control their own
development program
- It emphasizes self decision of the
concerned community, self-initiated
development efforts as well as self-
capacity building, empowerment of the
powerless, organization of the
unorganized, and awareness by the
unaware

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COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL MOBILIZATION
• GROWTH- physical, intellectual,
volitional and moral capabilities of
the deprived people as persons
• EMPOWERMENT- strengthening
of their collective capabilities;
bonafide leadership, solidarity and
paticipatory decision making of the
self-help groups/ organizations
▪ TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL
INSTITUTIONS- keeping with the
principles of equity and social justice
▪ ENHANCEMENT OF THE
ECOLOGICAL RESOURCE- is what
the deprived people depend on for their
physical security and sustenance
▪ DYNAMIC CULTURAL
INNOVATION- values, beliefs and
norms that constitute the blueprint for a
developed society and for the behaviour
of its members
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SELF-DEVELOPMENT PROCESS/ SELF-PROPELLED
MANNER
• Help in providing local mechanism for mobilizing savings in the community and
provide credit to meet their financial needs
• Assist institutions to initiate/ support local communities and groups to identify and
mobilize local resources and properly utilize external resources
• Help in building confidence and enhancing the capacity of the community in
promoting self reliance
• Assist in establishing a network of community financial institutions owned and
democratically operated by the people

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ROLE OF THE STUDENTS
IN SELF-HELP
ORGANIZATIONS
• Identify the needs of the people in the community
where they are assigned
• Assist the people in analyzing their problems
• Guide the group to form and manage self-help groups
• Help them on how they could develop their institutions
• Guide them on how they could increase access and
control over the resources
• Help them plan and implement self reliance through
small entrepreneurial activities at the community level

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COMMUNITY ACTION CYCLE FOR COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

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STEPS IN SOCIAL MOBILIZATION

1. NSTP students should visit the community in their settlements and establish
rapport
2. Determine physical boundaries of the settlement with the people
3. Assist the community in holding a community meeting in coordination with
the Barangay officials and encourage them to understand the need to
organize for collective action
4. Initially the groups should meet daily to discuss the most pressing issues
and action to be taken
5. For a community, the appropriate number of groups would be around 20,
with coordination of the Barangay officials

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BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MOBILIZATION

• Poverty Alleviation
• Promoting Democratic Governance
• Environment
• Conflict Prevention

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• COMMUNITY NEEDS
security health/hygiene
livelihood education
literacy land
social infrastructure water
housing construction social and culture
physical infrastructure electricity
street lights environment

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 Create awareness on the issue

Motivate the community through community

preparation, organizational development, capacity
developments and bring allies together

Share information and communication

Support them, provide incentives and look for some

resources

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PURPOSE OF COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Reduce stress
• Makes you healthier
• Saves resources
• Gains professional experience
• Brings people together
• Promotes personal growth and self esteem
• Strengthen your community
• Learns a lot- self, government, community

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GUIDELINES FOR NSTP
STUDENTS IN
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
PROGRAM
1. Appearance
2. Accountability
3. Student Behaviour
4. Bringing companions in the
community
5. transportation

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GUIDELINES FOR NSTP
STUDENTS IN
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
PROGRAM
6. Use of cellphones
7. Working with the LGU officials
8. Problems encountered

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ISSUES AND CONCERNS IN COMMUNITY
OUTREACH PROGRAM
▪ Good Governance
▪ Safeguarding the Electoral Process
▪ Social Problems (Poverty)
▪ Child Abuse
▪ Pornography
▪ Population Explosion
▪ Juvenile Delinquency
▪ Drug Abuse
▪ Pollution
▪ Unemployment
▪ Graft and Corruption
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6. The community you were serving was unfortunately razed by a fire. You gathered your members
and organized a relief operation to momentarily attend to their basic needs by mobilizing some of
your school’s resources. You were dispensing the goods when you realize that people from a nearby
community not affected of the fire were lining up to receive some relief. Some family members of the
community were able to get twice as much relief goods. Despite your good intentions, what could
have been possibly done to avert the situation? What could you still do after finding out what was
happening?
7. The project that would be implementing will be held during weekdays. This will be in conflict with
some of your other academic classes also scheduled during the weekdays. Other groups in the class
will be implementing their projects as well so everyone was already tasked to do something. What can
be best done to address this situation? What do you think the community people will do in response to
your action?

*Please include you synthesis or reflection at the end….

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